If There Isn’t Justice, Mexico Will Explode
Drug war militarization is actually used to create partnerships between governing elites and drug cartel leaders.
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Conversations
Articles featuring interviews, online panel discussions, and other exchanges transcribed, translated, or conducted by Antidote and our friends.
“Long Live the Rojava Revolution!”
An Interview with Revolutionary Anarchist Action on Kobanê AntiNote: This interview with members of Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet (Revolutionary Anarchist Action, or DAF) first appeared in Turkish in Meydan, a “monthly anarchist gazette,” on 22 October 2014. The English translation appeared on the DAF’s own site five days later. The DAF is a relatively young political
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The Nadir of Race Relations in America
In the era from 1890 to 1940, the United States actually went backward in race relations, got more and more racist. This is almost completely left out of American history textbooks.
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Remember “Making the World Safe for Democracy”?
The Arab Spring presented an enormous opportunity to put forward some of the ideals that we hold to be true, like democracy as a universal principle. Where were we in supporting that in Egypt when there was a military coup?
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African Anarchism: An interview with the late Sam Mbah
Full transcript of an interview with Sam Mbah, recorded in March 2012 in Enugu Nigeria by a member of the Jura Books Collective.
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Ferguson is Not Unique
These broader structural issues of police brutality, loss of economic opportunity, and exploitative practices are happening everywhere.
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You Are Not A Loan
Just as it’s impossible for a worker to conduct a strike without the rest of her coworkers joining her, it’s not possible for debtors to resist the structural mechanisms that put them in debt simply by individuals refusing to pay. It has to be a collective action.
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Zombie Prisons
We’re going to see the rise of a mass detention and deportation system [for immigrants] that will very much rival mass incarceration, and could actually grow as mass incarceration shrinks.
“We Have to Understand the Game. We Are All Playing it.”
The mining companies involved in murdering people in the forest can also be running law schools, and in the law schools they have courses on the poetry of resistance.
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Long Way From Maidan: A Report from Donetsk
There’s a lot of real old-fashioned class antagonism at the heart of this. When, on top of that class antagonism, you add an actual war with shooting, it becomes really ugly.
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